Guild Wars 2

So on the suggestion of one of the other threads I did some testing on Chomp to see if it is indeed working. And here’s what I found.

I can confirm Chomp is working, though it’ll only be triggered once your Drake reaches about half health. Its easier to test underwater, the animation underwater is very distinct and easy to pick out (above water its quick and somewhat similar to a basic attack), though Jellyfish seem to be the only underwater opponents that can reliably weaken my pet to the point where it uses Chomp.

I’d like for other people to test this though. I am seeing a green healing number pop up when Chomp is used. As it should, according to the description, though the tooltip doesn’t list healing. However, the green healing number is on the ENEMY, and not my pet. Not only that, but I’ve noticed no change in my pets health bar either, its not getting raised at all, that I can see. From what I can tell, Chomp is not healing your pet, but healing the enemy, while simultaneously damaging the enemy, so the enemy loses health but less than it should, and the pet recieves no healing.

I’d like to have some others test this and see what they come up with, because its possible I’m seeing it wrong (no combat log for accurate resaults of whats happening, just what I see on screen), but if it is indeed bugged in such a way then… well, it definately needs to be bug reported.

Don’t know if testing it on another player would allow the combat log to actually show whats happening or not, but if so that would perhaps be the best option, if anyone could find another player to test it on.

No one cares that Drakes might be healing the enemy instead of themselves?

I’ve been playing this game (and a Ranger) for 3mo’s now and can confirm that some of our pets ‘automatic’ abilities rarely if ever happen.

Chomp: "This skill heals your drake for 965 when it hits. "

I’ve never seen it happen. I’m going to test this as well as the Brown Bears “Bite” here shortly.

MaRko.3165:

Chomp: "This skill heals your drake for 965 when it hits. "

Funny, I actually added that line to the wiki.
I was so focused on getting a screenshot with the number, I never noticed the heal does apply to the enemy only.
I changed the entry accordingly.

Edit:
The bear-family seems fine though.

Post this as a bug in the sticky, if you haven’t already.

It’s the revenge of the marsh drake. Until they put the old crocodile-looking models back from beta the drakes are all plagued with bugs. Free the original marsh drake kitten

Confirmed this bug, and have posted in through the ingame bug report, hopefully they’ll fix it “soonish”.

Thanks for the confirmation guys. Added to the sticky as suggested (though I’m not sure if its even getting updated any more at this point?) and will bug report in-game as well now that I’m sure I’m not just seeing things.

LOL..That’s Rich!! Another thing that will alienate rangers.

Ranger Drake Chomp heals enemies. Bring a ranger and make the dungeon run more difficult…lol

Drakes Heal Enemies
Jade Maw Targets Pets
Jellyfish used to be invulnerable when eating our pet in the underwater fractal
No Agony resistance in 10+ fractals for pets…pets are always dead, Ranger does kitten damage
Spirits Bite!

Shinigami.2193:

LOL..That’s Rich!! Another thing that will alienate rangers.

Ranger Drake Chomp heals enemies. Bring a ranger and make the dungeon run more difficult…lol

Drakes Heal Enemies
Jade Maw Targets Pets
Jellyfish used to be invulnerable when eating our pet in the underwater fractal
No Agony resistance in 10+ fractals for pets…pets are always dead, Ranger does kitten damage
Spirits Bite!

Woooooooo! Come Get Some!!!

Seras.5702:

Shinigami.2193:

LOL..That’s Rich!! Another thing that will alienate rangers.

Ranger Drake Chomp heals enemies. Bring a ranger and make the dungeon run more difficult…lol

Drakes Heal Enemies
Jade Maw Targets Pets
Jellyfish used to be invulnerable when eating our pet in the underwater fractal
No Agony resistance in 10+ fractals for pets…pets are always dead, Ranger does kitten damage
Spirits Bite!

Woooooooo! Come Get Some!!!

LOL..yes…Come Get Some Heals while I plink you with my shortbow

Shinigami.2193:

LOL..That’s Rich!! Another thing that will alienate rangers.

Ranger Drake Chomp heals enemies. Bring a ranger and make the dungeon run more difficult…lol

Drakes Heal Enemies
Jade Maw Targets Pets
Jellyfish used to be invulnerable when eating our pet in the underwater fractal
No Agony resistance in 10+ fractals for pets…pets are always dead, Ranger does kitten damage
Spirits Bite!

It does suck that the heal is misplaced and hopefully it’ll get fixed promptly once it starts getting reported, but its not THAT bad. Drakes aren’t actually harmful to use, because Chomp is still doing daamge to the enemy (more damage than the amount they’re being healed). All its really doing is making Chomp do less damage and not helping the Drake itself get a bit of health back. Its a definate bummer, but not like the Drake is suddenly putting enemies back to full health or anything.

Electro.4173:

Shinigami.2193:

LOL..That’s Rich!! Another thing that will alienate rangers.

Ranger Drake Chomp heals enemies. Bring a ranger and make the dungeon run more difficult…lol

Drakes Heal Enemies
Jade Maw Targets Pets
Jellyfish used to be invulnerable when eating our pet in the underwater fractal
No Agony resistance in 10+ fractals for pets…pets are always dead, Ranger does kitten damage
Spirits Bite!

It does suck that the heal is misplaced and hopefully it’ll get fixed promptly once it starts getting reported, but its not THAT bad. Drakes aren’t actually harmful to use, because Chomp is still doing daamge to the enemy (more damage than the amount they’re being healed). All its really doing is making Chomp do less damage and not helping the Drake itself get a bit of health back. Its a definate bummer, but not like the Drake is suddenly putting enemies back to full health or anything.

I know…I totally agree…I acutally use my drakes…:P

I guess what I’m pointing out is the alienation Rangers are subject to just because of the pets.